While other chip manufacturers are still working to get 65nm processors, Intel has started manufacturing “Penryn” 45nm Chips, prototypes of computer processors using new manufacturing techniques that further shrink circuitry, making the chips run faster and use less power.
Current Penryn prototypes are being produced at Intel’s Oregon factories. The company plans to introduce some more changes replacing Silicon Dioxide gate dielectrics to High-k dielectrics. The gate electrodes will also be revamped with metal gates instead of the Polysilicon derivatives currently used to cerate more sophisticated Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) chip.
Intel has not yet launched the product commercially and is still under testing for desire working. The processors may be introduced in the second half of 2007. More 45nm production fabs may be started within 16 month. Penryn will also be the last product based on Intel’s Core architecture.
Via: dailytech
